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Anna, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you so much for taking my call. I'm really

excited to be speaking with you today.

Thank you. What can I help with? This call will be recorded. So what I'm calling about is I was hoping to get your opinion on what we owe our parents as adult children um just to give you a little bit of background um

my parents and i have been a strange for the past five years kind of on and off um and basically

before that before that that, you're estranged for five years, but before the five years of estrangement, what was it?

We had a very tumultuous relationship because of the dysfunction in my parents' relationship.

And this started in my early childhood because of the dysfunction in their relationship.

It affected me.

And so I've always been in the middle of all of their

dysfunction is kind of vague. You tell me what it is you observed? Sure. So my dad is very codependent with my mom.

Oh my, can we do this without psychobabble? And can we do this and just say he kicked the

dog? You know, I'd like to know specifically, not what somebody else labels it. Yeah, absolutely.

So as a little girl, he was just a very angry dad. He had a temper. He would often pick fights with me. He would,

I want to say emotional abuse, but what I mean by that is just be super critical of me,

super hard on me, even though I never really did anything to deserve like the level

that he would escalate it to. You know, I always did my homework. I went to school, you know,

was just like a normal kid, but I think because of the frustration. What kinds of things,

what kinds of things would he yell about? What kinds of

things would he yell about? You've been in therapy. I can tell, but just talk to me as though

you have not ever. Okay. Okay. Yeah. That makes sense. So he would just yell a lot about,

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